Curriculum Vitae Francisco J. Aragón Artacho March 2021

CURRICULUM VITAE

FRANCISCO J. ARAGÓN ARTACHO

MARCH 2021 PERSONAL DATA Name: Francisco Javier Aragón Artacho Date of birth: 20/04/1979 E-mail: [email protected] Web page: https://sites.google.com/site/franaragon/ MR Author ID: 809646 ORCID: 0000-0002-2445-8011 ResearcherID: C-2531-2012 Scopus: 16021226200

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL SITUATION Professional position: Profesor Titular de Universidad (equivalent to Associate Professor) Starting date: 01/09/2020 Organization: Universidad de Alicante Center: Facultad de Ciencias Department: Matemáticas Situation: Permanent Commitment: Full time

EDUCATION 1997–2002 Graduate in Mathematical Sciences, University of Alicante, Spain. 2002–2004 D.E.A. (Diploma of Advanced Studies) in Mathematical Analysis, University of Murcia, Spain. 2002–2007 Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Murcia, Spain. Thesis: “On Metric Regular- ity of Mappings in Optimization”, awarded “Sobresaliente Cum Laude” (highest mark) and European Mention. Thesis advisors: Prof. Asen L. Dontchev and Prof. Marco Antonio López Cerdá.

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2008–2011 Postdoc (Juan de la Cierva Fellow by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación - Spain), University of Alicante, Spain. 2011–2013 Research Associate, The University of Newcastle, Australia. 2013–2014 Postdoc (AFR Postdoctoral Fellow by the Fonds National de la Recherche - Lux- embourg), Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Luxembourg. 2014–2020 Ramón y Cajal Fellow by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Univer- sity of Alicante, Spain. 2020– Senior Researcher, Department of Mathematics, University of Alicante, Spain.

2 TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2008–2009 Optimización, 5th year course at the “Licenciatura en Matemáticas” (Degree in Mathematics), University of Alicante, 1.5 credits (15 hours). 2009–2010 Matemáticas, 1st year course at the “Diplomatura en Óptica y Optometría” (De- gree in Optics and Optometry), University of Alicante, 4.5 credits (45 hours). 2010–2011 Programas de cálculo cientíﬁco y procesamiento de textos, 1st Grado en Mate- máticas, University of Alicante, 8 credits (80 hours). 2015–2017 Programación lineal, 2nd year at the “Grado en Matemáticas”, University of Ali- cante, 2.4 credits (24 hours). Optimización II, 3rd year at the “Grado en Matemáticas”, University of Alicante, 3.6 credits (36 hours). 2017– Optimización II, 3rd year at the “Grado en Matemáticas”, University of Alicante, 7.2 credits (72 hours).

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE Aug. 2007–Apr. 2008 Portfolio Valuation Analyst, Multigestión Iberia S.A., Madrid, Spain. Aug. 2007 Analyst Training in Domusvenda, Lisbon, Portugal. Sep. 2007 Analyst Training in GFKL, Essen, Germany.

LANGUAGES Spanish (mother language), English (ﬂuent), French (ﬂuent) and German (beginner).

FIELDS OF INTEREST • Set-Valued and Variational Analysis • Optimization • Convex Analysis • Splitting Algorithms and Projection Methods • Metric Regularity • Computational Optimization

PHD STUDENTS • Rubén Campoy, January 20–December 2018. PhD in Mathematics by the University of Murcia. Thesis “Contributions to the Theory and Applications of Projection Algorithms”. Awarded “Sobresaliente Cum Laude” (highest mark) and International Mention. Cur- rently, he is a Research Associate at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (USA). • David Torregrosa, since September 2020.

EDITORIAL BOARD • Fixed Point Theory (since 2021). • Journal of Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimization (since 2019).

3 GUEST EDITOR • Set-valued and Variational Analysis (special issue in honor of Michel Théra): Volume 25, Issue 3: https://link.springer.com/journal/11228/25/3 Volume 25, Issue 4: https://link.springer.com/journal/11228/25/4

REVIEWER FOR MathSciNet, Mathematical Programming, SIAM Journal on Optimization, SIAM Journal on Con- trol and Optimization, Computational Optimization and Applications, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Journal of Global Optimization, Optimization Letters, Mathematics of Operations Research, Set-Valued and Variational Analysis, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Applied Mathematics and Optimization, Journal of Convex Analysis, Nonlin- ear Analysis, Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo, Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales, Positivity, Serdica Mathematical Journal, Pure and Applied Functional Analysis.

BOOKS

1. F.J. ARAGÓN,M.A.GOBERNA,M.A.LÓPEZ,M.M.L.RODRÍGUEZ: Nonlinear Optimiza- tion. Springer Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics and Technology (2019). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11184-7

RESEARCH PAPERS ACCEPTED OR PUBLISHED 1. F.J. Aragón Artacho, R. Campoy, P.T. Vuong: Using positive spanning sets to achieve d- stationarity with the Boosted DC Algorithm. Vietnam J. Math. 48, 363–376 (2020). DOI: 10.1007/s10013-020-00400-8 2. F.J.ARAGÓN ARTACHO,R.CAMPOY,M.K.TAM: The Douglas–Rachford algorithm for convex and nonconvex feasibility problems. Math. Methods Oper. Res. 91 (2020), 201–240. DOI: 10.1007/s00186-019-00691-9 3. F.J. ARAGÓN ARTACHO, P.T. VUONG: The Boosted Difference of Convex functions Algo- rithm for nonsmooth functions. SIAM J. Optim. 30 (2020), No. 1, 980–1006. DOI: 10.1137/18M123339X 4. F.J.ARAGÓN ARTACHO,R.CAMPOY, V. ELSER: An enhanced formulation for solving graph coloring problems with the Douglas–Rachford algorithm. J. Glob. Optim. 77 (2020), 383– 403. DOI: 10.1007/s10898-019-00867-x 5.M.A HOOKHOSH, F.J. ARAGÓN ARTACHO, R.M.T. FLEMING, P.T. VUONG: Local convergence of the Levenberg–Marquardt method under Hölder metric subregularity. Adv. Com- put. Math. 45 (2019), 2771–2806. DOI: 10.1007/s10444-019-09708-7 6. F.J.ARAGÓN ARTACHO,R.CAMPOY: Optimal rates of linear convergence of the averaged alternating modiﬁed reﬂections method for two subspaces. Numer. Algorithms 82 (2019), Issue 2, 397–421. DOI: 10.1007/s11075-018-0608-x

4 7. F.J. ARAGÓN ARTACHO, P. SEGURA MARTÍNEZ: Finding magic squares with the Douglas– Rachford algorithm. BEIO 35 (2019), No. 2, 106–128. http://www.seio.es/BBEIO/BEIOVol35Num2 8. F.J. ARAGÓN ARTACHO, Y. CENSOR,A.GIBALI: The cyclic Douglas–Rachford algorithm with r -sets-Douglas–Rachford operators. Optim. Methods Softw. 34 (2019), Issue 4, 875– 889. DOI: 10.1080/10556788.2018.1504049 9. F.J. ARAGÓN ARTACHO,R.CAMPOY: Computing the resolvent of the sum of maximally monotone operators with the averaged alternating modified reflections algorithm. J. Op- tim. Th. Appl. 181 (2019), No. 3, 709–726. DOI: 10.1007/s10957-019-01481-3 10.L.H EIRENDT,S.ARRECKX, [...] R.M.T. FLEMING: Creation and analysis of biochemical constraint-based models using the COBRA Toolbox v. 3.0. Nature Protocols 14 (2019), 639– 702. DOI: 10.1038/s41596-018-0098-2 11. F.J. ARAGÓN ARTACHO,R.CAMPOY: Solving graph coloring problems with the Douglas– Rachford algorithm. Set-Valued and Variational Analysis 26 (2018), 277–304. DOI: 10.1007/s11228-017-0461-4 12. F.J.ARAGÓN ARTACHO, R.M.T. FLEMING, P.T. VUONG: Accelerating the DC algorithm for smooth functions. Mathematical Programming 169B (2018), No. 1, 95–118. DOI: 10.1007/s10107-017-1180-1 13. F.J. ARAGÓN ARTACHO,R.CAMPOY,I.KOTSIREAS,M.K.TAM: A feasibility approach for constructing combinatorial designs of circulant type. Journal of Combinatorial Optimiza- tion 35 (2018), No. 4, 1061–1085. DOI: 10.1007/s10878-018-0250-5 14. F.J.ARAGÓN ARTACHO,R.CAMPOY: A new projection method for finding the closest point in the intersection of convex sets. Comput. Optim. Appl. 69 (2018), No. 1, 99–132. DOI: 10.1007/s10589-017-9942-5 15. F.J.ARAGÓN ARTACHO,J.M.BORWEIN,M.K.TAM: Global behavior of the Douglas–Rach- ford method for a nonconvex feasibility problem. Journal of Global Optim. 65 (2016), Issue 2, 309–327. DOI:10.1007/s10898-015-0380-6 16. F.J.ARAGÓN ARTACHO, R.M.T. FLEMING: Globally convergent algorithms for finding zeros of duplomonotone mappings. Optimization Letters 9 (2015), No. 3, 569–584. DOI:10.1007/s11590-014-0769-z 17. F.J.ARAGÓN ARTACHO,J.M.BORWEIN,M.K.TAM: Douglas–Rachford feasibility methods for matrix completion problems, ANZIAM Journal 55 (2014), No. 4, 299–326. DOI:10.1017/S1446181114000145 18. F.J. ARAGÓN ARTACHO,J.M.BORWEIN,M.K.TAM: Recent Results on Douglas–Rachford Methods for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 163 (2014), Issue 1, 1–30. DOI: 10.1007/s10957-013-0488-0 19. F.J. ARAGÓN ARTACHO,J.M.BORWEIN, V. MARTÍN-MÁRQUEZ,L.YAO: Applications of Convex Analysis within Mathematics, Mathematical Programming 148B (2014), Issue 1-2, 49–88, DOI: 10.1007/s10107-013-0707-3

5 20. F.J. ARAGÓN ARTACHO,A.BELYAKOV,A.L.DONTCHEV,M.LÓPEZ: Local convergence of quasi-Newton methods under metric regularity, Comput. Optim. Appl. 58 (2014), No. 1, 225–247. DOI: 10.1007/s10589-013-9615-y 21. F.J.ARAGÓN ARTACHO,M.H.GEOFFROY: Metric subregularity of the convex subdifferen- tial in Banach spaces, Journal of Nonlinear and Convex Analysis 15 (2014), No. 1, 35–47. http://www.ybook.co.jp/online2/jncav15.html 22. F.J.ARAGÓN ARTACHO, D.H. BAILEY,J.M.BORWEIN, P.B. BORWEIN: Walking on real numbers, The Mathematical Intelligencer 35 (2013), Issue 1, 42–60. DOI: 10.1007/s00283-012-9340-x 23. F.J. ARAGÓN ARTACHO,J.M.BORWEIN: Global convergence of a non-convex Douglas– Rachford iteration, Journal of Global Optimization 57 (2013), Issue 3, 753–769. DOI: 10.10 07/s10898-012-9958-4 24. F.J. ARAGÓN ARTACHO,J.M.BORWEIN,M.K.TAM: Recent Results on Douglas–Rachford Methods, Serdica Mathematical Journal 39 (2013), 313–330. http://www.math.bas.bg/serdica/2013/2013-313-330.pdf 25. F.J. ARAGÓN ARTACHO,M.GAYDU: A Lyusternik–Graves theorem for the proximal point method, Comput. Optim. Appl. 52 (2012), No. 3, 785–803. DOI: 10.1007/s10589-011-9439-6 26. F.J.ARAGÓN ARTACHO,A.L.DONTCHEV,M.GAYDU,M.H.GEOFFROY, V.M. VELIOV: Met- ric regularity of Newton’s iteration, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 49 (2011), No. 2, 339–362. DOI 10.1137/100792585 27. F.J.ARAGÓN ARTACHO,B.S.MORDUKHOVICH: Enhanced metric regularity and Lipschit- zian properties of variational systems, Journal of Global Optimization 50 (2011), No. 1, 145–167, DOI: 10.1007/s10898-011-9698-x 28. F.J.ARAGÓN ARTACHO,B.S.MORDUKHOVICH: Metric regularity and Lipschitzian stability of parametric variational systems, Nonlinear Analysis 72 (2010), Issues 3-4, 1149–1170. DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2009.07.051 29. F.J.ARAGÓN ARTACHO,M.H.GEOFFROY: Characterization of metric regularity of subdifferentials, Journal of Convex Analysis 15 (2008), No. 2, 365–380. http://www.heldermann.de/JCA/JCA15/JCA152/jca15026.htm 30. F.J. ARAGÓN ARTACHO,M.H.GEOFFROY: Uniformity and inexact version of a proximal method for metrically regular mappings, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 335 (2007), Issue 1, 168–183. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2007.01.050 31. F.J. ARAGÓN ARTACHO: A new and self-contained proof of Borwein’s norm duality theorem, Set-Valued Analysis 15 (2007), No. 3, 307–315. DOI: 10.1007/s11228-006-0040-6 32. F.J.ARAGÓN ARTACHO,A.L.DONTCHEV: On the inner and outer norms of sublinear mappings, Set-Valued Analysis 15 (2007), No. 1, 61–65. DOI: 10.1007/s11228-006-0034-4 33. F.J. ARAGÓN ARTACHO,A.L.DONTCHEV,M.H.GEOFFROY: Convergence of the proximal point method for metrically regular mappings, ESAIM: Proceedings 17 (2007), 1–8. DOI: 10.1051/proc:071701

6 PUBLICATIONS UNDER REVIEWING PROCESS • F.J.Aragón Artacho, R. Campoy, M.K. Tam: Strengthened splitting methods for computing resolvents. Submitted (November 2020), 38 pages. ArXiv: 2011.01796

PARTICIPATED IN THE FOLLOWING CONFERENCES 1. 10th International Seminar on Optimization and Variational Analysis, The Boosted DC Algorithm for linearly constrained DC programming, Elche, Spain, 26/02/2020 (Invited talk). 2. VII jornadas de Análisis Matemático, Convergencia local del método de Levenberg–Marquardt bajo subregularidad métrica de tipo Hölder, Alicante, 15–17/01/2020 (Invited talk). 3. RICAM special semester on “Optimization”, The Boosted DC Algorithm for linearly constrained DC programming, Linz, Austria, 25–27/11/2019 (Invited talk). 4. XXXVIII Congreso Nacional de Estadística e Investigación Operativa 2019, The Boosted DC Algorithm for nonsmooth functions, Alcoi, Spain, 03–06/09/2019 (Contributed talk). 5. International Conference on Continuous Optimization 2019, The cyclic Douglas–Rachford algorithm with r-sets-Douglas–Rachford operators, Berlin, Germany, 05–08/08/2019 (In- vited talk). 6. 71st Workshop of International School of “Guido Stampacchia” on “Advances in Nons- mooth Analysis and Optimization”, The Boosted Difference of Convex functions Algorithm, Erice, Italy, 24/06-01/07/2019 (Invited talk). 7. 29th European Conference on Operational Research, An enhanced formulation for suc- cessfully solving graph coloring problems with the Douglas–Rachford algorithm, Valencia, Spain, 09/07/2018 (Invited talk). 8. 14th Viennese Conference on Optimal Control and Dynamic Games, Local convergence of the Levenberg-Marquardt method under Hölder metric subregularity, Vienna, Austria, 03/07/2018 (Invited talk). 9. Splitting Algorithms, Modern Operator Theory, and Applications (17w5030), Modifying the Douglas–Rachford algorithm to solve best approximation problems, Oaxaca, México, 21/09/2017 (Invited talk). 10. Remembrance Day dedicated to Jonathan Borwein, Walking guided by Dr Pi, Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris, France, 10/02/2017 (Plenary talk). 11. Congreso Bienal de la RSME 2017, New projection methods for ﬁnding the closest point in the intersection of convex sets, Zaragoza, Spain, 31/01/2017 (Invited talk). 12. VI ALEL International Conference in Optimization Theory and its Applications, New projection methods for ﬁnding the closest point in the intersection of convex sets, Cartagena, Spain, 06/06/2016 (Poster). 13. 7th International Seminar on Optimization and Variational Analysis, Accelerating the DC algorithm for smooth functions, Alicante, Spain, 03/06/2016 (Invited talk). 14. Central European Set-Valued and Variational Analysis Meeting, Global behavior of the Douglas–Rachford method for nonconvex feasibility problems involving a half-space, Göt- tingen, Germany, 24/10/2015 (Invited talk).

7 15. III Congreso de Jóvenes Investigadores de la RSME, Projection algorithms for convex and nonconvex feasibility problems, Murcia, Spain, 07/09/2015 (Inaugural plenary talk). 16. 27-th European Conference on Operational Research, Douglas–Rachford feasibility methods for matrix completion problems, Glasgow, Scotland, 13/07/2015 (Contributed talk). 17. 13-th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization, Global convergence of the Douglas–Rachford method for some nonconvex feasibility problems, Edinburgh, Scot- land, 10/07/2015 (Contributed talk). 18. 8-th Workshop of Young Researchers in Mathematics, A walking tour guided by π, Madrid, Spain, 23/09/2014 (Plenary talk). 19. XI International Symposium on Generalized Convexity and Monotonicity, Globally convergent algorithms for finding zeros of duplomonotone mappings, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 28/08/2014 (Contributed talk). 20. V ALEL International Conference on Optimization, A derivative-free algorithm for solving duplomonotone equations, Seville, Spain, 05/06/2014 (Plenary talk). 21. EUROPT 2013, Local convergence of quasi-Newton methods under metric regularity, Flo- rence, Italy, 27/06/2013 (Invited talk). 22. SPOM: South Pacific Optimization Meeting, A Lyusternik–Graves theorem for the proximal point method, The University of Newcastle, Australia, 11/02/2013 (Invited talk). 23. EViMS: Workshop on the Effective Use of Visualization in the Mathematical Sciences, Walking on Real Numbers, The University of Newcastle, Australia, 23/11/2012 (Plenary talk). 24. 56-th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, Metric regularity of the sub- differential, University of Ballarat, Australia, 26/09/2012 (Contributed talk). 25. ALEL 2012 Conference, The Douglas–Rachford algorithm without convexity, Limoges, France, 02/07/2012 (Plenary talk). 26. Workshop on Infinite Products of Operators and Their Applications, Global convergence of a non-convex Douglas–Rachford iteration, The Technion, Haifa, Israel, 24/05/2012 (In- vited talk). 27. ANZIAM 2012 Conference (Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathemat- ics), Implicit Multifunction Theorems under Lipschitz-like Properties, Monash University, Warrnambool, Australia, 02/02/2012 (Contributed talk). 28. Workshop on Experimental and Analytical Mathematics marking the occasion of Jona- than Borwein’s 60th birthday, Implicit Multifunction Theorems and Metric Regularity, The University of Newcastle, Australia, 01/12/2011 (Invited talk). 29. 55-th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, Lipschitzian properties of Newton’s iteration, University of Wollongong, Australia, 27/09/2011 (Contributed talk). 30. 13-th Workshop on Well-posedness of Optimization Problems and Related Topics, A Lyus- ternik–Graves theorem for the proximal point method, Borovets, Bulgaria, 12/09/2011 (Contributed talk). 31. VII Encuentro de Análisis Funcional y Aplicaciones, Implicit Multifunction Theorems and Metric Regularity, Jaca, Spain, April 6th-9th, 2011 (Poster). 32. X International Conference on Parametric Optimization and Related Topics, Metric regularity of Newton‘s iteration, Karlsruhe, Germany, 23/09/2010 (Contributed talk).

8 33. International Congress of Mathematicians 2010, Proximal Point Method under Metric Re- gularity, Hyderabad, India, 28/08/2010 (Poster). 34. IX International Seminar in Optimization and Related Areas, Metric regularity and Lips- chitzian stability of parametric variational systems, Lima, Peru, 08/10/2009 (Invited talk). 35. Workshop on Well-Posedness of Optimization Problems and Related Topics, Proximal point method under metric regularity, Levico Terme, Italy, 14/09/2009 (Poster). 36. Optimization: Theory, Methods, and Applications, Metric Regularity and Lipschitzian Stability of Parametric Variational Systems, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 20/07/2009 (Contributed talk). 37. Second ALEL Meeting on Optimization and Applications, Metric Regularity and Lipschit- zian Stability of Parametric Variational Systems, University of Alicante, Spain, 27/06/2009 (Invited talk). 38. School & Workshop on Variational Analysis, Proximal point method under metric regularity, Santiago, Chile, November 6th-19th, 2008 (Prize-winning poster). 39. First ALEL Meeting on Optimization and Applications, Characterization of Metric Regu- larity of Subdifferentials, Limoges, France, 20/06/2008 (Invited talk). 40. 11-th Workshop on Well-Posedness of Optimization Problems and Related Topics, Char- acterization of Metric Regularity of Subdifferentials, University of Alicante, Spain, 14/09/2007 (Invited talk). 41. International Conference on Mathematics of Optimization and Decision Making 2006, Convergence of the Proximal point Method for Metrically Regular Mappings, Guadeloupe, France, 19/04/2006 (Invited talk).

SEMINARS GIVEN 1. Algoritmos de desglose fortalecidos, University Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain, 29/03/2021. 2. Algoritmos de proyección para la resolución de problemas de factibilidad convexos y no convexos, IMUS, University of Seville, Spain, 25/11/2015. 3. Convergence of some iterative methods in the absence of monotonocity, University of Göt- tingen, Germany, 08/07/2014. 4. Caminando sobre los números reales, IMUS, University of Seville, Spain, 03/07/2013. 5. Caminando guiado por π, University Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain, 26/04/2013. 6. Caminando guiado por π, University of Alicante, Spain, 24/04/2013. 7. My recent computer-assisted research, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 19/04/2013. 8. An algorithm that mysteriously solves (almost) any sudoku, University of Zürich, Switzer- land, 18/04/2013. 9. Walking on real numbers, OANTS (Optimisation, Analysis & Number Theory Seminar), The University of Newcastle, Australia, 22/10/2012. 10. Un algoritmo que misteriosamente resuelve cualquier sudoku, University of Alicante, Spain, 26/07/2012. 11. Douglas–Rachford: an algorithm that mysteriously solves sudokus and other non-convex problems, The University of Newcastle, Australia, 21/06/2012.

9 12. Lipschitzian properties of a generalized proximal point algorithm, The University of New- castle, Australia, 01/09/2011. 13. Un matemático en la empresa, University of Alicante, Spain, 27/11/2008. 14. Metric regularity and Lipschitzian stability for parametric variational systems, University Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain, 31/10/2008.

STAYS IN OTHER CENTERS • Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, 21 June – 6 July 2018. • IMUS, Universidad de Sevilla, 23–27 November 2015. • Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 28 September – 4 October 2015. • Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, September 2013 – September 2014. • The University of Newcastle, Australia, June 2011 – August 2013. • Cornell University, Ithaca (NY), USA, February 2010 – June 2010. • Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Guadeloupe, France, February 2006 – July 2006. • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI), USA, January 2005 – July 2005. • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI), USA, March 2004 – May 2004.

OTHER ACADEMIC TRAINING • German Course A1, University of Luxembourg, October 2013 – February 2014. • “Inglés Superior C1” Course in English, University of Alicante, October 2009 – December 2009. • “Basic” Course in German, University of Alicante, October 2008 – December 2008. • “Preparation to DELF II” Course in French, University of Alicante, February 2007 – May 2007. • “Preparation to DELF I” Course in French, University of Alicante, October 2006 – January 2007. • “Pre-Intermediate” Course in French, University of Alicante, October 2005 – January 2006. • XXVIII National Meeting of the Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa (SEIO), Cádiz, Spain, 2004. • “Summer School on Convexity and Discrete Geometry”, organized by the Mathematical Analysis Department of the University of Alicante, September 8th-19th, 2003. • “Matemáticas en el mundo real”, seminar by the University of Alicante, 30 hours, 2000.

10 FELLOWSHIPS • “Ramón y Cajal” fellowship by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, University of Alicante, November 2014 – October 2019. • Postdoctoral Grant by the AFR Grant Scheme (Aides à la Formation-Recherche) by the Fonds National de la Recherche de Luxemburgo, with rating A+ (maximum rating - Excel- lent Proposal), September 2013 – September 2014. • Grant “José Castillejo” by the Ministerio de Educación for stays of young doctors in foreign centers, for 5 months at Cornell University, USA, February – June 2010. • Postdoctoral Grant “Juan de la Cierva” by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Univer- sity of Alicante, May 2008 – May 2011. • “Premios i-MATH en India”, for the participation in the International Congress of Mathe- maticians in Hyderabad (India), by the i-MATH, 2010. • Grant BES-2003-0188 from FPI Program by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Uni- versity of Alicante, May 2003 – April 2007. • Complementary grant to BES-2003-0188 for a stay of 180 days at the Université des An- tilles et de la Guyane, Guadeloupe, France, 2006. • Complementary grant to BES-2003-0188 for a stay of 167 days at the University of Michi- gan, USA, 2005. • Complementary grant to BES-2003-0188 for a stay of 85 days at the University of Michi- gan, USA, 2004. • Accommodation grant for the “Summer School on Convexity and Discrete Geometry” by the RSME, 2003. • Grant for university students by the Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deportes, 1997 – 2002.

OTHER MERITS • Accreditation “Profesor Titular de Universidad” by the ANECA (National Agency for Qual- ity Assessment and Accreditation, Spain), February 2020. • Accreditation of the Program I3 (State Research Agency), marzo 2019. • Awarded with the Mahony–Neumann–Room Prize 2018 for the paper “Douglas–Rachford Feasibility Methods for Matrix Completion Problems” (The ANZIAM Journal), rewarding the ‘best paper’ published during the past 6 years. • Positive evaluation of the research activity of two sexennial periods (years 2005–2011 and 2012–2017) by the AVAP (Agència Valenciana d’Avaluació i Prospectiva), with marks 9/10 and 8.8/10, respectively. • Finalist in National Science Foundation International Science & Engineering Visualiza- tion Challenge 2012 (SciVis) as one of the top 10 in the Illustration category for a 100 billion step walk on π, see http://gigapan.com/gigapans/106803/. • Accreditation “Profesor Contratado Doctor” by the ANECA (National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation, Spain), June 2011.

11 • Accreditation “Profesor Ayudante Doctor” by the ANECA (National Agency for Quality As- sessment and Accreditation, Spain), March 2010. • Prize-winning poster on the School on Variational Analysis, Santiago, Chile, November 2008. • Certificate DELF B1 in French given by the CIEP (International Center of Pedagogical Studies), 2007. • Proficiency Certificate in English (highest level) by the “Escuela Oficial de Idiomas” (Offi- cial School of Languages of Spain), 2007. • “Premio extraordinario de fin de carrera”, University of Alicante, 2002; for the highest GPA among the graduates in Mathematics at the University of Alicante in the class of 2002. • Second prize in the second term section of the IV Edition of the “Premios Jorge Juan de Matemáticas”, year 2001; competition in mathematics organized by the University of Ali- cante. • First prize in the first term section of the III Edition of the “Premios Jorge Juan de Mate- máticas”, year 2000; competition in mathematics organized by the University of Alicante.